Analysis: Nectar In A Sieve

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Karolis Braciulis
Nectar in a Sieve
P5H
Setting:Rural India

Rural areas were calm until industrialization(tannery) showed up.
The Tannery can be helpful or bad for the village.Ex. If you get a job at the Tannery then you can make more money than working in the fields. It also is turning the rural village more into a small town.Some negative effects because of the Tannery are that prices on food have risen, and some farmers cannot afford to buy food now. The Tannery is noisy, and disturbs the peace of the village. The area where the children used to play is now where the Tannery stands.

Freytags Pyramid

Exposition:Rukmani is a young girl. It is said that she does not have good looks.She was the last of four other daughters. Her father was an important man in her village. They lived good, happy lives. When it was time for Rukmani to find a husband she did not have a large dowry because the sisters before her used up a lot of it.

Inciting Incident: She ends up having to marry a tenant farmer and everyone thinks she could have done better.

Rising action: She lives with Nathan a happy life and then out of no where a tannery arrives at her village. She does not like it because she thinks it will interrupt her daily life but some other people like it because they think now that their village can become a small town.

Climax: The Tannery has bought Rukmani and Nathans land. They have 2 weeks to move out to the city. Ira and her son will stay because this is their home and everybody is used to looking at Sacrabani(Albino Son). Selvam will help Ira and Sacrabani, continue their lives but cannot help his parents. Selvam has a job at a hospital Kenny has built and makes decent income.

Falling Action:None yet.

Resolution:None yet.

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... to make the trip.Kenny cares for Nathan, and tells Rukmani that the man hasn’t been eating well enough. Rukmani says that they eat as well as they can.Rukmani comes home one day to find Sacrabani cowering in a corner, looking at his grandfather, who is sitting on the floor looking into nothing.Nathan then announces the horrible news.Sivaji showed up for a visit, and their land is going to be sold to the tannery. All the time they spend working the land doesn’t matter because the tannery will pay more for the land.Nathan and Rukmani will be moving to the city.Then there is the question of Ira and Sacrabani. Though Nathan and Rukmani think they must go with them, Ira says she and her son have a home here. People are used to her and her son, and she does not want to begin a new life somewhere else.Setting is in there hut in rural India.

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